Culinary apparatus.



M. POUGET.

CULINARY APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, 1913.

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CULINARY APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, 1913.

Ptented June 16, 1914.

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UNFFE STATES PATENT OFFFOE MARCELLIN' POUGET, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

CULINARY APPARATUS.

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Be it known that I, MARCELLIN POUGET, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Detroit, county of \Vayne, State of Michigan. have in ented certain new and useful improvement in Culinary Apparatus, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

T his invention relates to culinary apparatus of the type capable of being utilized in preparing food products for consumption, and of a size adapted for quantity production such as would be used in kitchens of hotels and cafs or other public places, and an object of the invention is a simple and comparatively inexpensive device for the cutting, slicing, grating or mashing of raw or cooked materials of a variety of natures, and with which the various tools or appurtenances required for the various operations may be readily attached thereto.

The novel features of construction are hereinafter more fully described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of a machine embodying my invention showing one form of attachment utilizable therewith. Fig. 2 is a similar View of a portion only of the machine, showing a different attachment. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the pan and attachment shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail of the adjusting device for the attachment shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail in section of the attachment shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is an alternative form of the regulating device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a section on line 00-00 of Fig. 6.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the drawings and specification.

The device consists essentially of a circular ring like frame 1 supported upon the legs 2, 2, of which, at least, three are provided, and the ring like frame 1 is provided with an annular flange 3 adapted to support a similar flange of the ring 4. The ring 4 holds the pan 5, the bottom of which is formed of a grating 6 which may be of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 10, 19 .3.

Patented June 16, 1914.

Serial No. 753,164.

wire mesh as shown, or of any other desired form as is hereinafter more specifically mentioned. Between the flanges on the r ngs 4 and 1 may be inserted a roll of balls riding in grooves in each flange and the lower edge of the ring 4 is provided with gear teeth 7 meshing with the bevel gear 8 secured by means of a bracket to one of the legs 2. On the shaft of the gear 8 are spur gears 9 and 10. Meshing with the gear 10 is agear 11 keyed to a shaft 12 which is provided with an operating crank 13. Rotation of the gear 11 therefore rotates the gear 10, and consequently the gear 8 and the ring-4 and produces a rotary motion of the pan 5. As shown in Fig. 1, a disintegrating head or tool 14 is attached to the vertically positioned rod 15. The rod 15 is provided with gear teeth 16 upon one side thereof meshing with a gear 17, and the gear and rod or rack are carried and held in operative relation in the slotted end 18 of the supporting rod 19 secured to the frame of the machine. A hand wheel 20 is secured to the shaft of the gear 17 and a rotation thereof raises and lowers the rod and the head 14 secured thereto, and when so raised the material to be operated upon may be placed in the pan 5 whereupon the head is dropped to position on the upper surface thereof and the pan rotated by means of the mechanism heretofore described.

The head 14 as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 is formed of three curved arms having a lug 21 upon the upper surface thereof to which the rod 15 is secured by means of a thumb screw. Each of these curved arms is provided with a row of closely positioned comb like teeth 22, and a series of brush bristles 23 spaced therefrom, the teeth being so positioned that the rotation of the pan brings the material first in contact with the teeth and as it passes therebetween is acted upon by the brushes, which disintegrated the material and eventually forces it through the grating bottom of the pan 5, and there falls into a receptacle 24 situated beneath the pan 5 on a supporting base 25, secured to the legs of the machine.

It is to be noted that the head 14 does not revolve, but that the pan revolves about it and brings the material to the disintegrating device and this is true with all the various adjuncts that may be utilized with the machine, as for instance, such as is shown in Figs. 2 and 5, in which a cutting device is shown that may be used with raw materials if so desired. As shown in Fig. 2, a frame 80 is supported on the ring like frame 1, and the extended upper end of One of the legs 2, apertured to receive the end of a rod 31 of the frame 30 and this is also provided with a rotatable shaft 32 engaging in the apertured end of a shaft 38 carried by the upper end of one of the legs 2, and provided with a gear 34 normally in mesh with the spur gear 9. Suspended on this frame work is a stationary shear member 35 provided with a multiplicity of upwardly extending fingers 36 between which passes the shear blades 37 mounted on the shaft 32 and rotating therewith, a portion of which are shown more fully in Fig. 5. This shear member 35 preferably extends only about half way across the pan 5, and the rotation of the pan continuously brings the material to these cutting blades by means of which it is disintegrated, and the grating in the bottom of the pan 5 used with this attachment is of such size and shape as to allow the material to fall therethrough, while it is being cut to the proper size, into the pan 24 as with the formerly described attachment.

By means of the gear 17 and hand wheel 20 the rod or bar 15 may be raised or lowered as heretoforedescribed, the rack 16 also providing a means whereby the head 14 may be pressed downwardly upon the material to force it through the grating 6 in the pan 5, and for this purpose an alternative form of this portion of the apparatus is shown in Fig. 6, whereby pressure may be more easily applied to the material. This alternative form consists of a rod 19, similar to the rod 19 shown in Fig. 1, and this rod carries a bar 40 secured in place by a thumb screw 48 in the bent end of the supporting rod 19*, whereby it may be adjusted in position so that the vertically positioned rod 15 may be centrally disposed above the pan, or otherwise, if so desired. The end of the rod 40 is forked as shown at 42, and between these forks a hand wheel 47 is positioned, the hub of which is provided with a bevel gear 44 on the upper end meshing with a like gear 45 supported on the arm 43 attached to the head 42. The gear 45 is provided with a crank 46 by means of which it may be rotated. The vertically disposed rod 15 is substantially rectangular in crosssection as shown in Fig. 7, and is provided with screw threads upon two opposite faces thereof. The hand wheel and hubs thereof have a central threaded aperture of a diameter equal to the distance between the threaded faces of the rod and the hub 41 attached to the lower fork of the rod 40 has a rectangular aperture through which the rod passes as shown more clearly in Fig. 7, and this hub prevents a rotation of the rod 15 upon turning of the hand wheel 47 or the crank 46, and therefore, a rotation of the hand wheel 47 produces a vertical movement of the rod 15 whereby a considerable pressure may be produced upon material in the pan. rapidly raising or lowering the rod while the wheel 47 is utilized in producing the pressure stated.

lVhile I have shown and described but two forms of disintegrating attachments that may be used with this machine, it is obvious that various attachments may be devised to perform operations of various natures in preparing foods of different kinds, the essential characteristic of the device being that the cutting and disintegrating attachments of whatever nature are held in a fixed position, and the material brought thereto by means of the revolution of the material holding pan or other device for the purpose.

Having thus briefly described my invention and its general mode of operation, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates is 1. In an apparatus of the character described, a frame work, a receptacle holder rotatably mounted thereon, means for rotating said receptacle holder, a receptacle carried by said holder having a perforate base, and non-rotatable disintegrating apparatus positioned within the receptacle.

2. In apparatus of the character described, a ring like frame, a ring shaped receptacle holder mounted to rotate thereon, said holder being provided with gear teeth, a gear meshing therewith, a gear train by means of which said gear may be rotated, a receptacle supported within the ring shaped holder and having aperforate base, and nonrotatable disintegrating apparatus positioned within the receptacle.

3. In apparatus of the character described, a ring like frame, a ring shaped receptacle holder mounted to rotate thereon provided with gear teeth, a gear meshing therewith, a gear train by means of which said holder may be rotated, a receptacle supported within the ring shaped holder having a perforate base, means for supporting a. receiving receptacle below said holder, and means for securing and positioning disintegrating apparatus in said first named receptacle.

4. In apparatus of the character described, a frame work, a horizontally positioned ring shaped receptacle holder mounted to rotate thereon, means for rotating said holder, a receptacle carried by the holder The crank 46 provides a means for and extending therethrough, a receiving re- In testimony whereof, I sign this speciceptacle positioned below the first named refication in the presence of two witnesses. ceptacle, and means for raising said disin- MARCELLIN POUGET. tegrating apparatus from within the recep- WVitnesses:

tacle, said means being adapted to hold said THEODORE CHALOF,

apparatus from rotation. CHARLES E. \VISNER.

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